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This course develops competence in rhythmic, melodic and simple harmonic procedures, fundamental music analysis techniques, sight-singing and sight-readings skills and simple harmonizations using keyboard or guitar.
This course builds on the musicianship and theory training begun in MUSA 100. Students will gain skills in writing for four-part choir, using the keyboard as a tool for harmony and analysis, hearing and analysing chord progressions, analysing music in different styles and genres, sight-singing, and notating music hear by ear. The course will be of interest to musicians from different genres of art and popular music.
Students who pass this course will:Have highly-developed aural skills, including competence in sight-singing and melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic dictation;Have an understanding of tonal harmony, including diatonic harmony and simple chromatic harmony;Be able to harmonise simple melodies, and perform these harmonisations at the keyboard;Be able to analyse music from score (including scores using C-clefs and transposing instruments);Be able to discern patterns in complex information.
This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:
Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award
Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.
MUSA100 or equivalent preparation approved by the Head of School
MUSI112, MUSI171
Francis Yapp
Roger Buckton
Kim Wood
Turek, Ralph , McCarthy, Daniel William; Theory for today's musician ; Second edition; Routledge, 2014.
Domestic fee $892.00
International fee $4,313.00
* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.
For further information see Humanities .